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Marshall, N.c. 2d751
The news Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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Civic ballet honors
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78th Year, No. 12
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C.
THURSDAY, March 22, 1979
15* Per Copy
| School Bond? We'll Know June 12
?'Sharon L. Ray, supervisor
ef elections in Madison
County, furnished the
following statement in regard
to the $2.5 million school bond
referendum:
The following question will
be submitted to the voters of
Madison County by way of a
School Bond Referendum to
be conducted by the Madison
County Board of Elections on
June 12: "Shall the order
authorizing the issuance of
two million, Ave hundred
thousand dollars, (12,500,000)
in bonds for capital im
provements to the Madison
MR. AND MRS. P.I. PRESSLEY
and family of the Rollins section
of Marshall, whose mobile home
was washed away in the
Novmbw, 1977, flood, are a great
deal safer now with a new and
attractive mobile home atop a
Mgh foundation (shown above).
This type of block foundation
affords them a full basement. The
upper end of the foundation is
pointed much like a boat which
will "split" the water in case of
another flood. The French Broad
River can be seen at extreme
right. Cost of foundation was
approximately $5,000. (Photo by
Jim Story)
F reneh Broad EMC
Annual Meeting; Set
Preliminary plans are
underway for French Broad
EMC's Annual Membership
Meeting on April 21, at the
Madison High School in
Marshall.
An Arts and Craft Show is
planned for the third con
secutive year. It will open at
10 a.m. and will be open until
the business session begins at
1 p.m. Several entries have
already been received and
more are expected. Those
already entered are: Mable
C. Wallin, oil paintings; Paula
Parker, water color pain
tings; Lionel Filiss, stained
glass; Frances M. Grigg, tote
bags; Dewey Phillips, gourds
and walking sticks; Mrs.
Johnnie Allen, pocket books,
basket hangers and picture
frames; Eileen P. Meadows,
barnwood plaques, oils on
canvas and clothespin dolls;
Clifton Norton, macrame
hangers, tables and towel
racks; Suzi's Ceramics and
Crafts; Madison High School
Woodworking Class; Country
Boutique and Laurel Moun
tain Crafts with an assort
ment of craft items. A special
attraction this year will be a
Pearl Dive with Gordon and
Wade Huey On Board
N. C. Baptist Homes
officers for the coming yew
were presented by the
nominating committee ?n<l
elected by the full board:
W.H. Anderson, Waynesville,
president; the Rev. E. Gordon
Conklin, Greenville, vice
president; Mrs. Owen
Herring, Winston-Selena,
secretary.
The Baptist Homes Is an
agency of the N.C. Baptist
State Convention whose
primary purpose is to build
and operate Homes for the
care of aging people and are
uodar the direction of the
Rev. William A. Poole,
Executive Director, ef
Helen Gauss.
If you would like to enter
this show and display or sell
your craft product, please
contact Ernestine Plemmons
at 640-3061 to reserve space.
This space will be provided
free of charge and there is no
entry fee.
Entertainment this year
will be provided by the
Carolina Cut-Ups, a group of
young talented blue grass
musicians from Weaverville,
and the Singing Patriots, a
gospel singing group from
Asheville. Each will provide a
90 minute program between
11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Member registration will
begin at 10 a.m. and close at 1
p.m. The Business Session
will begin at 1 p.m. with
reports from the manager
and officers, and three
directors will be elected.
All French Broad EMC
members are encouraged to
attend this Annual Meeting
and exercise your rights as a
member.
County School System be
approved?"
In order to vote in the June
12 School Bond Referendum,
a person must be registered
or transfered by 5 p.m. on
Jim Baker
To Represent
Law School
The Walter F. George
School of Law of Mercer
University in Macon, Ga., has
announced that Jim Baker
has been selected as one of
three sutdents to represent
the law school in the 1979
American Bar Association
Law Student Division
Appellate Advocacy Com
petition. The competition will
be held in Nashville, Tenn.,
beginning March 27 and
consists of students arguing
hypothetical cases before a
panel of judges in the same
manner actual cases are
heard by courts on appeal.
Selection to the teams is
based on performance in oral
and written advocacy during
the students' first two years
in Law School and is designed
to recognize outstanding
achievement and provide
further experience in oral
advovacy.
Jim has also been named to
the Law School's Moot Court
Board for the academic year
1979-80. The Board is com
posed of law students who
have excelled in their writing
and oral capabilities in their
first year of law school as
well as in the Appellate
Practice program conducted
for second year students. The
Moot Court Board ad
ministers all Moot Court
Activities and represents the
law school at various com
petitions.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Leonard Baker of R-4,
Marshall, Jim is a 1977
graduate of Mars Hill College
and a second year student at
Walter F. George School of
Law.
May 14. The office of the
Madison County Board of
Elections, located on Main
Street in Marshall, open
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday of each week from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Telephone 649-3731.
You may register to vote in
Madison County if you are: 1)
a citizen of the United States,
2) a person 18 years of age, or
will become 18 by the date of
the election, 3) a legal
resident of the state of North
Carolina and Madison County
for 30 days by the date of the
election, 4) a person con
victed of a felony whose
citizenship rights have been
restored.
Registration is free, per
manent and continuous. You
need to register, transfer, or
re-register only if you: 1)
have not registered in
Madison County before, 2)
lave moved to a different
rating precinct since you
-egistered, 3) wish to change
four party affiliation, 4) have
:hanged your name, and 5)
lave been removed from the
ictive registration records for
Failure to vote in four con
secutive years.
There are three officials in
each precinct also authorized
to register voters. You may
obtain the names and phone
numbers of those officials in
your precinct by calling the
Board of Elections' office.
One may also register with
any member of the Madison
County Board of Elections.
ABSENTEE VOTING
If you are registered in
Madison County and are
imable to vote in person on
election day due to illness,
physical disability, or ab
sence from the county you
may apply for an absentee
ballot for the School Bond
Referendum from the
Madison County Board of
Elections.
The Board of Elections will
begin receiving applications
For absentee ballots on April
13. You may apply for an
ibsentee ballot during normal
>ffice hours (Monday,
Wednesday and Friday ?
1:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) from
tpril 13 through S p.m. on
luneB.
One-stop absentee voting
allows a voter to go to the
Board of Elections Office fill
out an application, receive an
absentee ballot, then vote in
the office. Those finding it
inconvenient to travel to the
Elections office may request,
or have a near relative
(spouse, parent, brother,
sister, child, grandchild, or
grandparent) request, in
writing, an application for an
absentee ballot by writing the
Madison County Board of
Elections at P.O. Box 142,
Marshall 28753. If you are a
near relative, designated by
you, may also go to the office
in person and apply for an
absentee ballot.
Persons needing to vote by
absentee ballot in the June 12
Madison County School Bond
Referendum are reminded
that making early application
should insure against
technical error.
For further information
regarding absentee voting,
call the office of the Madison
County Board of Elections at
649-3731.
GOP Gathering
Madison Approves County Organization Plan
The Madison County
Republican Convention was
held in the courthouse here
Saturday.
. Larry Justus, chairman of
P <r nth District Republican
Party, spoke to the delegates.
He stressed the need for good
government on all levels and
a strong two-party system. A
county {dan of organization
was approved and party of
ficers were elected for the
next two years. They were:
Chairman, Dr. Larry N.
Stern; Vice Chairman, Mrs.
Pat Roberts; Secretary, Mrs.
Fay Ball; Treasurer, C.N.
Willis.
Members of the county
executive committee were
elected and these Included all
precinct chairmen Delegates
to the Uth Congressional
District Convention to be held
at 2:00 p.m. in Franklin, April
28, and the state convention to
be held May 18 and 19 in
Raleigh were elected as
follows: Mike Chapman, Mrs.
Ella Vee Willis, B.B. Coffey,
Mrs. Fay Ball, C.N. Willis,
Dr. Larry Stern, Mrs.
Frances C. Ramsey, Joe
Morgan, Bill Powell, Clyde
Elections Bd.
Open Only
3 Days Week
Miss Sharon Ray, Elections
Supervisor, has announced
that the office of the Madiaon
County Board of Elections is
now open only three days a
week: Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 1:30 a.m. to
4:90 p.m.
Roberts, Bruce Briggs, and
Mrs. Loy R. Roberts. These
alternates were elected:
Dadrick Brown, Mrs. Edith
Lunsford, Gayle Brigga, Mrs.
Cecelia Powell, Roger Swann,
Roy Norton, Phillip Ball,
Darrell Norton, Gary
Sprinkle, Bill Mitchell, Jim
Craine, and Sherman
Ramsey.
Judicial, Senatorial, and
Legislative District Com
mittees were elected.
The Madison County GOP
Executive Committee will
appoint a Study Committee
soon to discern the factual
situation relative to the forth
coming School Bond Issue to
be voted on In the county, in
April.
Justus has appointed Joe L.
Morgan of Madison County to
the Reeoiutioas Committee
for the llth District Con
vention to be held in Franklin
at Which GOV. I.am*r
Alexander of Tennessee will
be the keynote speaker.
County To Participate
In Foster Children Plan
Madison County has been
selected to participate in a
pilot project to implement a
permanency planning
program for foster children.
Durham, Cabarrus, Lenoir,
Onslow, Randolph, Scotland
and Surry counties were also
selected to participate in the
project by the Division of
Social Services of the N.C
Department of Human
Resources.
"Far too many children in
the United States today are
adrift in the sea of foster
care. North Carolina is not
immune to this problem, as
many children in this state
are in need of permanent,
secure homes," Robert H.
Ward, director of the Division
said.
Over 10,000 children live in
faster homes throughout
North Carolina during the
year. The average length of
stay in foster care is over two
years, with these children
usually living in an average of
17 foster homes during their
minority. Statistics indicate
that children who are not
returned to their natural
family within two years will
probably never return.
"The results of a per
manency planning demon
stration project in Oregon
was so successful that Por
tland State University, who
had done the research
component of the demon
stration project, was awarded
a new three-year grant from
the Office of Child
Development to share their
knowledge with other states.
North Carolina has been
accepted as a participating
state in this project and will
receive training and technical
assistance from the Portland
State staff," Ward said.
Ward also said that North
Carolina, because of limited
staff and money, decided to
select eight county depart
ments of social services to
participate in a pilot project.
Ward sent a letter to all 100
county social services
departments asking for
volunteers. "We were very
pleased that SI counties
volunteered to participate.
The counties selected will be
required to uk the per
manency planning model and
have their participating staff
members take special
training arranged by the
Division of Social Services. In
addition, staffing and
supervisory patterns are
established by the state.
Every county in the project
must also have adequate legal
and supportive services
available.
"We are Indeed enthusiastic
and excited about this new
initiative to provide per
manent homes for these
children where they will be
loved and have the security of
knowing that they will remain
there. Our first priority for a
permanent home la for the
child to be returned to an
improved home situation with
the natural parents. If this is
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noc possiDie, inc secono
choice la an adoptive
placement If neither of theee
Is possible, we must find a
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permanent nome ior cnnaren
who must remain in ftotar
care/' Ward cooduM.
Tony Webb, County Forest Ranger, Is Enjoying Work
By JIM STORY
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Jimmy Antonio (Tony)
Webb, Madison County forest
ranger, atated last weak that
he is enjoying his work in
Madtaa County and ap
preciates the cooperation he
la receiving (mm other
tod especial the
i of the fobite in
; private for eat land
M
? <- Ctr retired
after 90 years ofvtdtentad
service^ to the atata and
men in Western North
Carolina. Daring his SO yean
with the fareat Mrvtces he
developed one of the finest
county forest fire control
organisations found
anywhere."
Webb further stated that he
felt it an honor to succeed
Craine, who had laid such a
One foundation la forestry
ft, ? f I, UmhImm ri I*1
ui? tor est involves controlling
to control outbreaks of I
and diaeaaee that deatory our
woodland."
toll in
During the past ftoa
(1974-78) the county ted IN
Una which buraad a total af
1|9S7 acrea at private land.
That ia an average af ? Bras
JIM BAKER